HISTORY: Learn about, play, and sing African American Spirituals; attend a pioneer day at historical country store: learn to make a rag doll, rope, and operate a 2-man saw.

SCIENCE/NATURE: attend Basic Engineering and Construction classes: build a bridge, motorcycle and bulldozer from oral directions and demonstrations; knock down lego wall with bulldozer; drive motorized cars across the bridge.

Do and narrate baking soda experiment; measure and calculate using a measuring tape; read Magic School Bus, and the Electric Field Trip, Moving Heavy Things (Jan Adkins), How Do They Grow?: From Piglet to Pig (Jillian Powell) and From Tadpole to Frog (David Stewart); work in Electricity workbook (The Energenius Safety Program, PG&E); time4learning.com online activities.

Listen to songs on There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly ... and more Stories That Sing, Scholastic DVD.

ART: attend art classes: Drawing and Painting Animals, and Mosaic Treasure Box; make clay creations, including fairies and mermaids; illustrate a song; make a chart showing ages and stages of children; illustrate and write Thank You note.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE: attend bilingual Mandarin/English story time at the library: vocabulary: farm animals,